Boston Local Food Festival

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We are glad to have been part of the planning and thinking around the first ever Boston Local Food Festival whose mission is to 

We are glad to have been part of the planning and thinking around the first ever Boston Local Food Festival whose mission is to 

  • Generate increased demand for local and sustainably produced food through education and promotion.
  • Support the growth and development of local farms and locally owned food-related businesses.
  • Increase the availability and access of healthy local food to urban communities.
  • Facilitate collaborations between local food farms, businesses, and public and non-profit organizations.

    • We believe when we talk about local food, it’s important that we not forget our local seafood. Through a collaboration with the Sustainable Business Network and others we are able to bring a whole host of seafood related activities to the Festival, including a Seafood Throwdown.

    Didi Emmons of Haley House Bakery Café in South Boston will face off against Jason Bond formerly of the Beacon Hill Bistro and No. 9 Park, who will soon be opening his own restaurant Bondir Restaurant in Cambridge. The competition will be judged by Edith Murnane, Director of Food Initiatives from Mayor Menino’s Office, Leigh Vincola from Edible Boston Magazine, Gina Nistico from America’s Test Kitchen and Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Mary Griffin. The emcee for the event will be Peter Van Ness of Legal Music.

    Chefs Emmons and Bond will educate and entertain festival-goers with their skills as they show how to work with whole, fresh, and very local seafood. Chefs can bring three of their favorite ingredients and once they discover the secret seafood they will be using, they get $25 and 15 minutes to shop the Boston Local Food Festival’s vendors for ingredients. After their shopping spree, they have one hour to cook and present their entry for the judge’s consideration. Public tastings will be available.

    In addition to the Seafood Throwdown, filleting and seafood cooking demonstrations will be held by the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association, whose project Cape Ann Fresh Catch Community Supported Fishery has been supplying Boston area seafood lovers with locally caught seafood.

    Prepared seafood will be available through Turner’s Seafood, the Daily Catch and Port Clyde Fresh Catch. Raw seafood for purchase will be available from the Port Clyde Fresh Catch.